Chronic Pelvic Pain with Synthetic Vaginal Mesh and Slings - Introduction

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Significant chronic pelvic pain is a predictable health complication for these women. Often, it is disabling. Extreme discomfort can be experienced just by touch to the labia or anus. Muscle spasms are a common source of pain and include pelvic floor spasms or obturator muscle spasms. These spasms are often excruciating.
“The initial pain starts as a muscle spasm. When this muscle spasms around the nerve, the pain will then start in the nerve itself. Then patients will have pain both in the muscle and in the nerve.”
-Michael Hibner, M.D.
Pelvic Pain Specialist
If left unchecked and untreated, chronic pelvic pain can develop beyond specific areas, becoming compartmentalized. It is known as CRPS or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
“Those are the patients that over time develop centralized pain. I mean pain that exists in the central nervous system. It is a condition where you may completely treat the pain in the pelvis, but it is still present in the nervous system. It is very important to get to a right provider. The longer they wait, the more severe their pain gets. With every day, it becomes more and more difficult to treat them.”
-Michael Hibner, M.D.
Pelvic Pain Specialist